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offense. Any person harboring a dog or dogs shall be termed
the lawful owner of same.

Any person may and it shall be the duty of any deputy game
warden or other officer of this State to humanely destroy any
cat found hunting or killing any bird or animal protected by
law and no action for damages shall be maintained for such
killing.

(g) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer for
sale, purchase or offer to purchase, barter, exchange or buy
at any time within the State of Maryland, any Bob-White or
Partridge (Quail), English Ring-neck, Mongolian or Melan-
istic Mutant Pheasant, or any other imported species, native
Pheasant, Ruffed Grouse, Cottontail Rabbit, Wild Turkey,
Deer or wild water-fowl, either dead or alive, whether same are
caught or killed within the State of Maryland, or in any
other State, territory or country, except live game may be
purchased and kept in captivity for propagation purposes
only, upon securing a permit from the Game Warden.

(h) Provided, however, nothing contained in this section,
shall prohibit the person lawfully killing a rabbit from selling
same to a consumer in the county where said rabbit was killed
for food; however, same shall not be offered for re-sale, trans-
ported or shipped beyond the confines of said county in
which said rabbit was killed, except as provided in Paragraph
A of Section 22 of Article 99.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all Acts or parts of
Acts heretofore enacted inconsistent with this Act be and
they are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1941.

Approved April 28, 1941.

CHAPTER 430.

(House Bill 98)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 48A of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Insurance", sub-
title "Agents and Brokers", said new section to be known
as Section 92A and to follow immediately after Section 92,
providing for the examination by the Insurance Commis-
sioner of certain applicants for license as agent, solicitor,
broker or broker's solicitor, except applicants to sell life